| Israel Experience & Special Scholarship Programs |
Israel Experience & Special Scholarship Programs
ENROLL YOUR CHILD IN SKIP NOW and INVEST IN YOUR CHILD'S JEWISH FUTURE
The SEND-A-KID-TO-ISRAEL PARTNERSHIP
(SKIP) program is a special savings plan that helps Chicago area Jewish youth visit Israel as an integral part of their Jewish education. Young people who participate in the program for the full seven years (grades 3 through 9) will have approximately $2,000, including interest, saved to help meet the cost of an Israel Experience program. SKIP funds can be used beginning the summer after 9th grade through FIVE YEARS AFTER GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL. Furthermore, SKIP contributions, plus interest, are FULLY REFUNDABLE at any time should your son or daughter not participate on an Israel Experience program.
SKIP GOAL - an Israel Experience program as part of each child's Jewish education. SKIP funds can be used for your family’s choice of a wide variety of approved high school or college Israel Experience programs.
SKIP PARTNERS - your family, your congregation, and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago each contribute to the SKIP savings plan.
SKIP ENROLLMENT - enroll in public or day school grades 3-6 and continue to make contributions through 9th grade.
SKIP FACTS – More than 4,200 participants are currently enrolled in SKIP through more than 51 participating congregations, and more than 1,625 teens and young adults have used their SKIP funds to help them participate on an Israel Experience program.
SKIP INFORMATION - for more information on the SKIP program or enrollment in SKIP, contact Ken Levin at the congregation office (847-432-8903 ext 224) or SKIP (312-444-2895). |
| American Israel Public Affairs Committee |
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
America's pro-Israel lobby, contains up-to-date news briefings. |
| Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) |
Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)
For a great opportunity to learn interactively at home, click on the learn online link on the JTS home page. |
| Jewish Family and Community Service |
Jewish Family and Community Service
Jewish Family and Community Service is committed to strengthening individuals, families, and communities in the Chicago area by helping people care for themselves and others. |
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago |
Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
Founded in 1903 to serve the Chicago area's growing population of Jewish immigrants on the West Side, our vibrant social service agency is nationally recognized for its wide array of contemporary life-enriching programs and services that reach 35,000 persons of all ages and all life stages more than 1.4 million times a year. |
| United Jewish Communities |
United Jewish Communities
United Jewish Communities website, filled with important Jewish community content. |
| Israel Bonds |
Israel Bonds
A global securities organization providing investment capital for the development of Israel's economy.
Israel Bonds
221 N. LaSalle
Suite 2350
Chicago, IL 60601
Office: 312-558-9400
Fax: 312-558-9014 |
| Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago (JUF) |
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago (JUF)
Has links for e-alerts, Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Chicago, missions to Israel, etc. |
| Maot Chitim of Greater Chicago |
Maot Chitim of Greater Chicago
"Maot Chitim" refers to the centuries old custom of gathering wheat to provide the poor with matzoh and other items for the observance of Pesach and more recently Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah, and other times. |
| American Jewish Committee |
American Jewish Committee
Works to safeguard the welfare and security of Jews in the United States, Israel, and the world. |
| Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) |
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL)
America's prime resource for information on organized bigotry. |
| Jewish National Fund (JNF) |
Jewish National Fund (JNF)
Conserving and protection the ecology of the Land of Israel over the next fifty years and beyond. |
| Solomon Schechter Day Schools Metro Chicago |
Solomon Schechter Day Schools Metro Chicago
Our mission is to provide to all Jewish students who desire it an outstanding Hebrew day school education, integrating a Conservative Jewish approach to Judaic studies with an invigorating curriculum of general studies. We nurture within our students commitment to Conservative Jewish religious observance, devotion to Israel, passion for learning, respect for the individual, and dedication to American citizenship and the Jewish community. |
| Camp Ramah - Wisconsin |
Camp Ramah - Wisconsin
Camp Ramah in Wisconsin is a unique Jewish community in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Each summer campers and staff experience the wonders of nature, learn from dynamic teachers and specialists, expand their own creativity and explore being Jewish.
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| Chicagoland Jewish High School |
Chicagoland Jewish High School
The Chicagoland Jewish High School was launched in 2001 by a passionate group of community leaders who donated their time, expertise, and dollars to turn their vision into reality. They believed fervently that CJHS would expand the spectrum of Jewish education in Chicago and prepare a new generation of Jewish students to live Judaism as responsible and involved citizens in the modern world. |
| Masorti Movement |
Masorti Movement
The Masorti Movement is a pluralistic, religious movement in Israel, affiliated with Conservative Judaism. Its philosophy combines commitment to Jewish tradition and halachah (law) with an open and positive approach to the modern world, to democratic culture and to Zionism. |
| Mercaz USA |
Mercaz USA
Zionist membership organization of the Conservative Movement. |
| Mishnah Yomit and Perek Yomi |
Mishnah Yomit and Perek Yomi
Since Simhat Torah 5760, Conservative Jews throughout the world have committed themselves to reading a chapter of Tanakh each day.
Message by Rabbi Jerome M. Epstein |
| United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism |
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
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| CHUSY Region USY |
CHUSY Region USY
United Synagogue Youth, more commonly known as USY, is a network of synagogues across the United States and Canada, to create a fun, educational environment where teens can make friends, and experience Jewish life.
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| Magen David Adom |
Magen David Adom
Israel's National Emergency Medical Service (EMS), 650+ emergency vehicles in operation, providing 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year emergency ambulance and coronary rescue services to all Israel hospitals. |
| United Jewish Communities Advocacy Center |
United Jewish Communities Advocacy Center
Your connection to your legislators, the issues impacting your community, and the media. Advocacy made easy. Your personal support and your effort in energizing your constituencies are critically important for our Jewish community. |
| USHMM |
USHMM
US Holocaust Museum Exhibit |
| Florence Melton Adult Mini-School |
Florence Melton Adult Mini-School
Beth El is proud to be a sponsor of the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, widely regarded as THE FINEST PROGRAM FOR ADULT JEWSIH EDUCATION IN THE WORLD. Through our participation with the Limud North Consortium of the Community Foundation for Jewish Education, this course is available to Beth El members at a special, “Consortium Member” rate. Please review the Melton link for further details. Space is limited. We urge all Beth El members to take advantage of this outstanding educational opportunity! |
| The ITS and Yad Vashem |
The ITS and Yad Vashem
With some 75 million pages of documentation, Yad Vashem’s archives comprise the largest collection of information on the Holocaust, as well as photographs, testimonies, Pages of Testimony and more. Sources of this information include documents microfilmed by Israel in the mid-1950s at Bad Arolsen, Germany, in the central repository of the International Tracing Service (ITS) established at the end of World War II to help survivors trace missing relatives and friends. In charging the ITS with its enormous task to help reunite families “torn apart by war,” the Allies gathered all the documentation possible that pertained to individuals during the war – including its victims, deportations, concentration camps, forced labor and displaced persons.
Due to mounting public pressure to allow easier access to the vital documentation housed at Bad Arolsen, the International Commission of the ITS recently signed a new agreement whereby scanned copies of the entire collection will be transferred to its 11 member states, among them Israel. Part of this material duplicates what Yad Vashem already has, but it also includes new material collected in the last 50 years by the ITS as well as documents not copied at that time. |
